Actually, Di Matteo was praised for his attacking football at West Brom, he's not your typical Italian. For me:
1st choice: MON - obvious choice but unlikely
2nd choice: Di Matteo - Young and ambitious, plays ambitious attractive football to suit, charismatic, calm but passionate, got WBA promoted, but sacked a few months later.
3rd choice: Clark - Same as above - ambitious and passionate but likes to play football too, Huddersfield play nice football and are very hard to beat, not a fan of their defending though, unproven at this level, will he cope/put up with bug names?
4th choice: Davies - Got Derby up but then failed miserably, got Forest from relegation candidates to automatic promotion candidates in a short space of time, likes to play pacey attacking football, complained about lack of investment but will have it here, whinged too much about it and this led to Forest bottling it twice I feel. Gets his players playing for him generally though.
Hughes doesn't excite me at all. He's never got a team promoted, has done decent jobs at Fulham and Blackburn but has never actually been 'successful' anywhere. I have a bad feeling he'll get it but he'd be an uninspiring choice in more ways than one.